Will OS4 have SMP after all

[nicholas]

Troll! :razz:

Everyone knows OS4 is the holy grail of modern computing, you Commie Terrorist!

:lol:

Surely Minix with AmiWM/X11, Ken's Icons and UAE with AROS 68k is the true future?

[nicholas]

UAE on AROS and native AROS apps shared a graphical user interface too... That was kind of the point



The advantage of the 68k emulation in AOS4 and MOS is that the 68k and PPC apps live in the same environment and can share libraries etc... It is only possible because the 68K and PPC are big endien...



I don't think you realise that the AROS UAE integration is supposed to be pretty seamless to the user... You might never know UAE is actually running!!

A clone of Trance with seamless byte-swapping would be nice.  Shame Emumiga never got off the ground.

[nicholas]

That's a little off topic, AOS4 classic is never going to have SMP

There's nothing to stop an opensource OS that is yet to be written from running on the BPPC and farming out 68k processes to the onboard 060 though.

[nicholas]

The the CPUs in question are not identical, then that's not SMP

True.

[nicholas]

And, no, there will never be new PPC accelerators for classic hardware.
Especially with more than one core.

Not if we all start praying!

http://ultimateppc.nl/

[nicholas]

This does not solve the problem for the programs relying on the fact that no other program will access memory between Forbid()/Permit().

I'm more than sure that there are brains mightier than mine capable of working around that problem.